A guide to English Gothic architecture, illustrated by numerous drawings and photographs (1922)
Gardner, Samuel, 1856- · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 181
tween themcarried down to the necking—an arrangement that probably suggested the straight stalks of the EarlyEnglish stiff-leaf foliage. Although the arches here are pointed the whole style of the work is Norman.That the pointed arch was adopted for constructional and not ornamental reasons is… … Plate No. CXVII. ST PETERS, NORTHAMPTON. CAPITALS, c. 1160. N Sometimes Norman cushion capitals were sculptured, occasionally as an after-thought, as in the crypt atCanterbury Cathedral. But at St Peters, Northampton, we find very elaborately carved cushion capitals,apparently as part of the…
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